Man I used to love fishing Silver Lake at this time of year. I always done best throwing a shallow diving crankbait next to to pads that also had some brush near by. You used to catch insane amounts of palm sized blugills there before the damn carp cleaned the lake of weeds the bluegills used for spawning. That did make the crappie fishing better though. In the fall you can tear the crappies up at the mouths of the many channels.